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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the governor try to do to Imoinda at the beginning of Act II, Scene III?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Hug her.
(c) Sleep with her.
(d) Kill her.

2. What does Blanford vow to help Oroonoko do at the beginning of Act II, Scene II?
(a) Reunite him with his wife.
(b) Send him home.
(c) Free him.
(d) Beat him.

3. How did the captain capture Oroonoko to be a slave?
(a) By knocking him out and tying him up.
(b) By offering to trade the prince's life for his wife's.
(c) By hitting him over the head and dragging him to the ship.
(d) By getting him drunk on his ship and putting him in shackles.

4. Who is Imoinda?
(a) Oroonoko's sister.
(b) Oroonoko's mother.
(c) Oroonoko's step-mother.
(d) Oroonoko's wife.

5. What is the setting of Act II, Scene I?
(a) The trading port.
(b) Welldon's house.
(c) Widow Lackitt's house.
(d) The governor's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the line "I shou'd like mightily to be call'd Mrs. Welldon" foreshadow in Act I, Scene I?

2. What does Widow Lackitt hint at the end of Act II, Scene II?

3. What does Blanford vow to do?

4. What relationship are Lucy and Welldon pretending to have in the first scene of the play?

5. Who says: "Why, a lusty young Fellow may happen to temp you" in Act I, Scene I?

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